Oriental Art

Discover Japanese art like no other. Originally created by the artists of the ukiyo-e ‘school of the floating world’ to advertise brothels in 17th-...

Here is a concise and authoritative survey of the rich and complex arts of Japan, from the prehistoric period right up to the present, now with a n...

This volume offers the first critical account of how European imports of East Asian textiles, porcelain, and lacquers, along with newly published d...

Facing China is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography ...

Transcendent eco-luxe arrangements and installations created by famed floral designer Louesa Roebuck from seasonal flora foraged from the West Coas...

A beautifully illustrated, interdisciplinary look at the ceremonies and protocols of the dynastic court of Joseon KoreaRecording State Rites in Wor...

Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters examines how energy use in the ceramics-making industry has evolved as a result of technological advancements...

This volume celebrates the wealth and diversity of the arts of India created for the life of courts and temples from 1000 BC to the twentieth centu...

This work explains how and why Japan supports a community of professional dancers, musicians, production companies, and visual artists that has nea...

In the past, girls from rural southeastern Europe spent their childhoods weaving, sewing, and embroidering festive dress so that upon reaching pube...

Textile artist Takaku Kuboku (1908-1993) is a paragon among modern artists of Japan, fusing rural and urban, traditional and innovative, and Asian ...

The catalogue for the groundbreaking exhibition at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Nomads and Networks presents...

In the late 1970s, at the close of the Cultural Revolution, a group of young, largely auto-didact artists in China endeavored to create artwork tha...

This richly illustrated book provides an anthology and summation of the work of one of the world's leading historians of Chinese painting and calli...

What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and It...

In this beautifully illustrated book, eminent art historian John Rosenfield explores the life and art of the Japanese Buddhist monk Hozan Tankai (1...